On 29 Mar 2009, at 9:37 AM, Brian Ussery wrote:
> Dear W3C
>
> Thank you for the invitation to provide feedback about the new W3C
> website design at beta.w3.org.
>
> While I like the new design from a visual perspective, I was
> surprised to find it lacking important meta (description, NOODP and/
> or other) at the page level. Since meta descriptions and other
> forms of meta are used by Google for snippets seen by users in
> search results, this seems like an important issue to bring to your
> attention.
Hello Brian,
We avoid including metadata that targets particular search engines or
user agents. We have
included rel="nofollow" in some cases out of sheer necessity.
Which metadata specifically were you thinking of?
_ Ian
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